Well, I’m on the hook for a nonresident license everywhere I fish, and it adds up. Still a bargain compared to what it costs to fish in Europe of course. Some fees are not too bad – NY was $50 for a full year, no trout stamp required, Ontario has a nonresident 8-day “conservation licence” (great if you’re a C&R angler) for about $26US. Others get a bit pricey – PA is over $50 for only 7-days, including the trout/steelhead stamp.

I don’t mind paying, really. The price of getting to decent fishing and lodging, meals etc far outweighs the license costs. Provided the license money goes to the appropriate state agency and not into a general fund where the game/fish people have to fight each year to get back as much as hunters and fishermen put in.

Of course IMO too much of nearly every state’s game/fish budget goes to fish hatcheries instead of protecting wild habitat but that’s a subject for another day.

There is a good chance I may not be seeing something or understanding the article fully. But her it is as simply as it says: The bill would permit CPW to raise multi-day and annual resident hunting and fishing license fees by $8.00 and increase state park entrance fees. The bill is scheduled to be heard by the Colorado Senate next week.

The bill should have been heard this week. Maybe if it happens we won’t see it till next year?

This is why I don’t get into government things, because I don’t fully understand it all.

I’d like to know how many times a year our government shuts down compared to other countries. I’m starting to believe they shut it down just because they are not getting what they want, and so they’re acting like little babies. But I don’t know anything about politics.